Why? Are We (blacks) Treated Differently?

Incarceration Trends In America

: Betweewn 1980 and 2015, the number of people incarcerated in America increased from roughly 500,000 to over 2.2 million.

: Today, the US makes up about 5% of the worlds population and ha 21% of the worlds prisoners.

: 1 in every 37 adults in the US, or 2.7% of the adult population is under some form of supervision.

Racial Disparities In Incareration

: In 2014, African Americans constituted 2.3 million, or 34%,of the total 6.8 million correctionl population.

: African Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites.

: The imprisonment rate for African American women is twice that of white women.

: Nationwide African American childeren represent 32% of childeren who are arrested; 42% of childeren who are detained and 52% of childeren whose cases are judicially waived to criminal court.

: Though African American and Hispanics make up approximately 32% of the US population, they comprised 56% of ALL incarerated people in 2015.

: If African Americans and Hispanic were incarcerated at the same rates as whites, prison and jail population would decline by almsot 40%.

Drug Sentencing Disparties

: In the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 17 million whites and 4 million African Americans reportedly having used an illicit drug within the last month.

: African Americans and whtes, use drugs at the similar rates, but the imprisonment rate of African Americans for drug charges is almost 6 times that of whites.

: African Americans represent 12.5% of illicit drug users, but 29% of those arrested for drug offenses and 33% of those incarcerated in state facilities for drug offenses.

Effects Of Incarceration

: A criminal record can reduce the likelihood of a callback or job offer by nearly 50%. The negative impact of a criminal record is twice as large for African American applicants.

: Infectious Diseases are highly concentrated in corrections facilties: 15% of jail inmates and 22% of prisoners – compared to 5% of general population – reported ever having TB (tuberculosis), Hep. B (hepatitis B), and C, HIV/AIDS, or other STDs.

: In 2015 alone, the US spent nearly $81 billion on corrections.

: Spending on prisons and jails has increased at triple the rate on spending on Pre-K -12 public education in the last thirty years.

(My questions are)…

WHY? When nearly ALL prisons are privately owned?

WHY? When they have taken out most of the educational/rehabilitation programs in the prison system?

So where is all this MONEY going?

Into somebody pocket if you ask me…